Movies like Wit
If Wit's mix of nurse, poetry and professor stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Wit's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · Directed by Miloš Forman · 135 min8.4
Why you'll like itWith Christopher Lloyd · Shares: nurse, hospital
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
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Testament of Youth
2015 · Directed by James Kent · 129 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: nurse, poetry
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view.
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The Good Nurse
2022 · Directed by Tobias Lindholm · 121 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: nurse, hospital
Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.
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Dead Poets Society
1989 · Directed by Peter Weir · 129 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: poetry, professor
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern…
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Doctor Strange
2016 · Directed by Scott Derrickson · 115 min7.4
Why you'll like itWith Benedict Wong · Shares: doctor
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
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The Professor and the Madman
2019 · Directed by Farhad Safinia · 124 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: professor
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum,…
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The Wonder
2022 · Directed by Sebastián Lelio · 108 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: nurse
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.